Prem Kahani (1937 film)

Prem Kahani (English: "Love Story") is a 1937 Hindi film, by Franz Osten and starring Ashok Kumar, N.M. Joshi, Mayadevi, Vimala Devi, Madhurika Devi and others.

Plot
Two widowed neighbours thwart a love match when they try to arrange marriages for their respective children.

Cast

 * N.M.Joshi as Father
 * Bilqis as Mother
 * Aloka as Ratanbai, the daughter
 * M.Nazir as Chandrakanta
 * Kamta Prasad as Priest
 * Tarabai Solanki as Heera
 * Saroj Borkar as Shanti
 * Maya Devi as Maya
 * Ashok Kumar as Jagat
 * P.F.Pithawala as Bhagwandas
 * Vimala Devi as Ramla
 * Chandraprabha as Ms. Prabha
 * Manohar Ghatwai as Motilal
 * Sunita Devi as Ms. Indira
 * Mumtaz Ali as Mr. Sharma
 * Madhurika Devi	as Usha
 * Ahteramuddin

Production
Bombay Talkies produced two films in 1937, Jeevan Prabhat and Prem Kahani. This is also Bombay Talkies' eighth film since the studio was founded in 1934.

Khorshed Minocher-Homji aka Saraswati Devi, one of the few female composers of Hindi cinema, composed music for this film.

Writer Niranjan Pal's original title for the English-language story and screenplay was 'Touchstone' or 'Marriage Market', indicating a shorthand version of the film's theme. The verse that Pal uses as a mood reference for one of the songs in the film is from Arthur Ryder's 1912 translation of Kalidasa’s Kumarasambhava or The Birth of the War-God.